#cbfd beta

So while trying to find differences between the two betas and the final, my friend died during a boss fight. 

In the final, when Conker gets crushed to death, his body remains flattened like this.

But in both betas, something different happens. Not only does it play his normal death animation (him lying on his back and reaching up before collapsing on his back again) it also has something extra. Something completely unused, and I don’t think this has been documented before. It isn’t on the tcrf page, that’s for sure.

So my friend and I found this by accident, we were fighting the Big Big Guy and she died by getting crushed and I noticed something next to Conker before the screen faded out. I asked her to die again and let the screen remain on Conker. This was the result, gore warning.

That is an unused texture of Conker’s intestines. I can assume it went unused because most of the time we died, we couldn’t get it to face the correct way. The blue part of the texture I think is supposed to be Conker’s jacket torn open? I’m not too sure. We did get a few screenshots of it looking as we think Rare intended it to show. Oh yeah, his heart and another organ would also pop out of him upon dying, so you’ll see those on the ground next to him.

I’m certain it wasn’t removed for being too gruesome, considering some of his other deaths. I always thought his crushed death was tame in comparison to getting shattered into chunks or getting sliced in half. 

Oh? Who are you?

Oh, crow!

I recognize you, you’re from Twelve Tales!

How interesting that they were going to be in Bad Fur Day too!

Their spawn location is random in this map, spawning up on the ledge or on the muddy ground below.

They despawn randomly as well, it’s hard to get good views of them. They pop out of sight very quickly, and those who stay eventually fly through the wall and disappear forever.

You can see the silhouette of one at the bottom middle of the screenshot, they spawned down on the mud. 

It seems they were supposed to be anywhere that you can hear crows cawing.

They were found in the demo, but their textures remain in the final game.

(Gotten from TCRF page)

I theorized that maybe it’s because Conker didn’t have his cigar, so I loaded an area where he had it but he still did idle animations.

I wonder why they took these out? Maybe they really did think it was too serious of a section for him to do fun little idle animations.

Bonus: Rodent really wants some chocolate milk.

One difference I wanted to bring up was this, since I found it interesting enough to talk about.

Before getting into Rock Solid, Conker has to learn the password from one of the cavemen. He mishears him, and says a wildly wrong word. In the beta, the word actually gets censored along with a beep and Conker covers his mouth and looks guilty. Conker doesn’t like swearing, after all!

In the final, they uncensored it. He still looks concerned though.

The beta scene was restored in Live and Reloaded, funny enough. I remember they promised to restore changed scenes, so I wonder if this was actually a higher up decision from Nintendo. Maybe a higher up didn’t understand the joke and wanted it uncensored?

New friend spotted